Shell Programming and Scripting

hi!i am musician and have very little knowledge about shell
here's my script

Code:

#!/bin/bash
for (( ; ; ))
do
   wget some wikipedia article here --output-document=- > /dev/audio
done

so it downloads random wikipedia page (forum doesnt let me post link so i wrote some wikipedia article here )
and throws it at laptops default soundcard making noise and then repeats the loop
problem is
i want to use jack instead of default sound card output
so i can route the signal to other software and use my external sound card
someone showed me this example that uses jack that way
cat /dev/sda | ecasound -i stdin -o jack

but i dont know how to implement that output part into my "wikipedia noise" script
can anyone here help me with this please?
cheers, karl

Code:

wget some wikipedia article here --output-document=- | ecasound -i stdin -o jack

?

thank you! now there is connection
but new problem is that with every loop ecasound connects and
disconnects, therefore connections in jack from ecasound to other software disconects with every loop
hmm what might be the solution to this?

Try:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
for (( ; ; ))
do
  wget some wikipedia article here --output-document=-
done | ecasound -i stdin -o jack

now ecasound stands still+i have some signal
but after few seconds error shows up and sound stucks...
(audio-db- client) warning underrun is reading from stdin
trying to recover


if there's no other better solution maybe i can somehow
route audio from /dev/audio to jack?
thanks for response again

Maybe you could download all the articles into some directory, and then run:

Code:

cd /some/directory
cat * | ecasound -i stdin -o jack

?

sure i could, but the idea was to use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
not static file collection, no repetition
i need this for sound installation and to work for many hours
so possibly i will need something that deletes used articles after they are "sonified" aswell
of course if idea with downloading will work at all
best, karl